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" Letters Patent No. 108,017, dated October 4,1870.

` V'lMPRovEMENT-lN BoL'rsFoR BARN-moons, ae. f

To all lwhom it may condena Be itvknown'that T, Mem-'1s R. GnnnsyofWarwick, in the county of Orange, and State of New York, have invented anew and valuable Improvement in Doorl4`astenin`gs'.;` and 'Ifdolierebyfleclare that the followingis a full, clear, andexact-description of the onstruc-tion andoperat-ion oft-he same,reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part oi' this.specioatioinand "to the letters andgnres oi' reference marked thereon.

. Figurel of theifdrawing"is a representation of a pairvv of' 4doors ini elevation, provided with i'mprofved fas-tening. i

n l Figure 2 isa similar representation, with vchanged positionof"fasteniug.

My invention relates .toa novel arrangement oi' apail"of"sin1ultaneonsly-working toggle-bars, forthe purpose of securingbarn orfstable-doors, or the like. Iuthe drawinge-` [i I A Af representa pair of .ordinary barn-doors.

'B is the surroundingsll or frame, haring the mor- `tli-e upper ,andlower horizontalbars thereof; i 1

G C' are a pair of toggle-bars, ot which `C is swivf eled to the lower.eleatJl of the door A, and C' 'made to slide within* the guiding-StapleD, vtheposition of i which may be changed to suit single or doubledoors.

'TheSohedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

'lhe position' in which the drawing represents it, as' guiding the barC', is proper fora single door, and

likewise for double doors, when they are tongued and grooved, orprovided with overlapping cleats or anges.

In the absenceof such provision, a b1oek,.E,' prop' erlyiiangeth may hesecured to the door A', and the i (staple 1), so placed' that the bar Gshallslide behind said block.4

The operation'oi' the device is 'clearly illustrated in the drawing.

' The door to which the toggles are applied is secured -by pressing thehandle of the bar G inwardly, causing i the outer ends ofthe toggles toenter their respective mortises, '7). i

Thatl elaimas my invention, auddesire to secure by Letters}?ate1 1 t,isl

The arrangement of the'toggles C C' and staple D, in combination with asingle or double door, and s1ll,

or equivalent, prorided with the mortise b, substantially as and for thepurpose set forth.

Iufte'st-imonythat Ioiaim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my namein the presence of two witllesses.

' MELTIN R. IGREEN.

